Thursday, July 25, 2019

How to Teach Consonant Spellings

Today's Video is all about how to effectively teach consonant spellings!


If you missed our video about WHAT are the Sound-Spelling patterns and WHY we teach them, check out the video.



Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:
  • short vowels in cvc 
  • consonants and blends 
  • soft c and g 
  • silent and double consonants 
  • schwa 
  • digraphs and trigraph 
  • r-controlled vowels 
  • long vowels: final silent e (vce) 
  • long vowels: vowel teams 
  • other long vowels 
  • closed syllables 
  • open syllables 
  • variant vowels
  • consonant-le
Sound-Spelling Patterns 


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